Travel Bug
June 26, 2008 
Here’s a map of the USA, showing the places in the USA where I’ve visited:
I think that’s not too shabby, considering I’ve only lived here for less than 1/2 my life.
World Map:
It’s hard to tell as they are tiny countries (I guess one isn’t even a country anymore), but in Asia, I’ve been to Hong Kong and Singapore). Do you check the countries where your plane landed, even if you never visited the place? I didn’t, but if I were going to include those, I would add India, Bahrain and New Zealand to the list.
My husband and I are working on joining The Century Travelers Club. “Membership in the Travelers’ Century Club (TCC) is limited to those travelers who have visited one hundred or more countries of the world. It was first organized in Los Angeles in 1954 by a group of the world’s most widely traveled people.”
“Here is the Travelers’ Century Club’s official list of countries
http://www.travelerscenturyclub.org/countries.html
, a total of 317 as of June 2007. Although some are not actually countries in their own right, they have been included because they are removed from parent, either geographically, politically or ethnologically (see the Country Status page for detailed criteria). After consideration as to how long one must have stayed in a country or island group to qualify, it was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice — even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop. This greatly widens the field and will give the traveler a better chance to qualify for one of the most unusual clubs in the world.”
So I would say that all of your countries count. I am up to around 65, with 7 more that will be added in October.
Hmmmm…. NH is not colored in -will have to encourage you to come to Celebration in Nashua next May so that you can color it in too
Hmmm…I wonder if they count Norfolk Island as a country? We’re off there next week!
It’s a strange place…. in some ways it thinks it’s part of Oz but in other ways it’s not.
Yes Alison I think you can count Norfolk Island in. Hope you have a great holiday.
Susan what happened to all the countries we visited on our original journey to Australia. That is if you can allow refuelling stops.
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